Santa Maria della Salute is a Baroque church in Venice at the entrance to the Grand Canal . It is one of two votive churches of Venice, built on the occasion of a plague epidemic in the city. On October 22, 1630, the acclaimed Doge Nicolò Contarini the Madonna a church, with a request for completion of the plague that raged since 1630, in the city and in the city of about 46,000 inhabitants lost (one third of its population). The church was in a prominent place on the Bacino di San Marco towards the Doge's Palace to be built. From the competition held by the Venetians went Baldassare Longhena , a student Scamozzi , emerged as the winner, although the Senate would prefer to begin hires a Roman architect.
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